Maxwell Saungweme

Having started the year engulfed with a myriad of problems — from fuel shortages, soaring prices of goods and services, shortages of drugs to labour disputes — the Daily News on Sunday’s Assistant Editor Maxwell Sibanda sought comments from…
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Vice President Kembo Mohadi’s trip to South Africa where he is seeking treatment for an undisclosed ailment sparked outrage yesterday, coming at a time government has aggravated the dire situation in the health sector by dismissing nurses…
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In his desperation to get his story out, former president Robert Mugabe unwittingly revealed on Thursday how he had long lost control of the army, thus presenting a perfect opportunity for those disenchanted with his rule to nudge him out…
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Zimbabweans have reacted angrily to First Lady Grace Mugabe’s brush with the law in South Africa where she faces charges of severely assaulting a 20-year-old model, Gabriella Engels she had found with her sons at an upmarket hotel in…
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Despite frantic attempts by President Robert Mugabe’s publicists to convince the public that the incumbent was as fit as a fiddle, calls by his wife that he must handpick a successor could be out of the realisation that the Zanu PF leader…
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By  Fungi Kwaramba The United Kingdom House of Commons has said it was deeply concerned by lack of electoral reforms in preparations for Zimbabwe’s key 2018 general poll and called on the government to ensure the vote is peaceful, fair…
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By Maxwell Sibanda Government must come out clean on the source of the $17 million it says it has raised for the purchase of Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) kits. President Robert Mugabe’s government is so broke, hence the…
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By Gift Phiri President Robert Mugabe’s recent declaration that he won’t groom a successor is yet further indication that he wants to be Zimbabwe’s leader for life, analysts said. They said the nonagenarian — who turned 93 today —…
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By Tendai Kamhungira and Mugove Tafirenyika Zanu PF’s ugly and seemingly unstoppable tribal, factional and succession wars are increasingly taking bizarre turns as well — with the latest flashpoint for the troubled former liberation…
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By Maxwell Sibanda Recent victories in Gambia and Ghana by opposition political party leaders Adama Barrow and Nana Akufo-Addo respectively show that the winds of change are blowing in Africa. The Daily News spoke to analysts on…
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